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The decision by the Senate, which yesterday, passed a bill extending the implementation of the capital   component of the 2020 Appropriation Act to March next year is a reminder; if at all one was needed,   that President Muhammadu Buhari has not transformed the federal budgeting process in all his years in   office. […]

The kidnappers who abducted Anthony Okungbowa, Edo State Head of Service,  are yet to make contact with his family by Sunday, a day after the kidnap.   Unidentified gunmen kidnapped Edo’s top civil servant  on Saturday along Oza Road, in Orhiomwon Local Government Area of the state.   The gunmen also killed his driver, while […]

… records 1,145 new cases Nigeria’s daily infection rate of the Covid-19 for the first time crossed the 1,000 on Thursday, as the country recorded 1,145 new confirmed cases of the disease.This follows the  rate of 930 cases,recorded on December, 16. These were preceded by 796 cases recorded on December11, as the virus makes a come-back […]Read More

   The Federal Government has described as senseless, the claim in certain quarters that the abduction and release of over 300 schoolboys from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, was stage-managed.       Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, dismissed the claim on Saturday when he spoke on NTA Good Morning […]

The Nigerian government has ordered all mobile network operators in the country to update their customers’ registrations with the National Identity Number (NIN), with a directive that phone numbers not updated by end of this year would be blocked by January 2021.   This comes barely a week after the government banned the registration of […]

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, on Tuesday, said he dethroned the former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi because he was not best man for the throne, saying he was appointed to spite former President Goodluck Jonathan.   According  Ganduje, Sanusi was appointed the Emir in 2014 to […]

Some 333 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara are yet to be accounted for, two days after an attack on the institution Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State said on Sunday.   Masari made the disclosure in Katsina during a visit by the military top brass, led by the Minister of Defence, Gen. Salihi […]

Nigeria on Friday recorded the highest single-day Covid-19 infection rate since the outbreak of the pandemic, the government announced.   The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced that the country recorded 796  new cases, recorded in 15 states and the Federal Capital Territory.   The statement shows that the FCT led with 258, followed closely […]

There were reports that several boarding students were Friday night kidnapped by unknown gunmen from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara (all-boys school) in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari.   Sources said that the attackers shot the security guard attached to the school, who was rushed […]

The mace at the Ogun State House of Assembly, earlier declared stolen in Abeokuta, has been recovered in Lagos State, the police said on Friday.   A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, said the mace was recovered around the Abule Ado area of Lagos.   “The […]

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, and Ghana’s incumbent president, has won the 2020 presidential election.   Akufo-Addo was declared winner of the polls by the Electoral Commission of Ghana, beating his rival and former president, John Mahama, who contested under the National Democratic Congress.   Akufo-Addo received 6,730,413 […]

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has criticized the coverage of the #EndSARS protests by the foreign press, describing them as disgusting.   Buhari specifically mentioned the coverage by CNN and BBC of the #EndSARS protest, saying they lacked balance, because they failed to give attention to the Policemen that were killed.   “It […]